What to Do With Our Grief Over the Mid-East Crisis?

July 29, 2014 8:09 PM

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We are three weeks into the Mid-East crisis and the only thing everyone can agree on is that it's terrible. The death toll on both sides, as is repeatedly pointed out in every media outlet, is mounting.

That is about as productive as the dialogue gets. It's where the grief starts and ends. The rest -- newspaper articles, Facebook posts, Twitter messages, television clips, radio sound bytes on the issues -- simplify a complex situation, divide people around the globe, and create growing intolerance,...